November 2019 issue
The Conservative Party has been captured by extremists and moderates are leaving. Gaby Hinsliff asks if those new homeless voters will swing the coming election. Amelia Gentleman says we could soon see “Windrush, the sequel.” Plus: philosopher Pat...
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The world's most bombed country
Chris Mullin
What America needs to understand about Qasim Soleimani
Arron Merat
illustration by michael rea
Out of mind: philosopher Patricia Churchland's radical approach to the study of human consciousness
Julian Baggini
The Home Office's failure on Windrush became a national scandal. Will EU nationals be next? Photo: Prospect composite
The Go Home Office: how the department of Windrush could harm EU nationals next
Amelia Gentleman
Billingsgate at its current site in the shadow of Canary Wharf
London’s famous fish market is leaving town, taking hundreds of years of tradition with it
Jessica Brown
The end of the liberal Tory
Gaby Hinsliff
Regulars
ILLUSTRATION BY NICK TAYLOR
What would people be surprised to learn about Emily Maitlis? "I have facial blindness"
Prospect Team
Editorial—Flight of the moderates
Tom Clark
The Prospect puzzle and crossword: November 2019
Prospect Team
Is financial inequality a generational problem—or something else? Photo: Prospect
Have the old stolen young people’s futures? Our contributors debate
David Willetts and Jennie Bristow
Re-rat race: the many MPs swapping sides, in numbers
Tom Clark
Letters: November 2019 issue
Prospect Team
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Stephen Collins's cartoon: Streaming services
Stephen Collins
Opinions
Protests in Srinigar in 2016 Photo by Dar Yasin/AP/Shutterstock
View from India—Yearning for Kashmir
Iqbal Ahmed
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Economics and investment: when in doubt, diversify
Duncan Weldon
Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire/PA Images
A huge question for UK investors—who succeeds Mark Carney?
Andy Davis
The health service can't do everything by itself, writes its former chief executive. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images
Mental health report: match political commitment with smart policy
Nigel Crisp
Photo: Prince Harry visits YMCA South Ealing in west London to hear about its work on mental health
Mental health report: early intervention is key
Barbara Keeley
Footballer Danny Rose has been open about his struggles with mental health. Photo: Darren Staples/Sportimage/PA Images
Mental health report: how to deliver parity of esteem with physical conditions
Tom Clark
Photo: Yui Mok/PA Archive/PA Images
Rules of the political game: why election law is not fit for purpose
DAT Green
Any "reset" of capitalism won't come from here. Photo: Shutterstock
High finance is wrecking the economy and the planet—but it won't reform itself
Ann Pettifor
Photo: Isabel Infantes/EMPICS Entertainment
A constitution in crisis? No—it is working just as it should
Adam Tomkins
Thunberg has called her Asperger's a "superpower." Yet both praise and criticism of her seems to ignore it. Photo: PA
Greta Thunberg is proud to have Asperger's—so why do even her fans ignore it?
Lizzie Huxley-Jones
Arts & Books
Hadrian's Wall
The best podcasts November 2019—People's Landscapes and Beatles City
Charlotte Runcie
William Blake's second life
Seamus Perry
Robert De Niro in The Irishman
What's on television in November 2019—My Grandparents' War and The Irishman
Chris Harvey
Daniel Craig in Knives Out
The best films in November 2019—Knives Out and Motherless Brooklyn
Wendy Ide
Shelagh Delaney © Publisher handout
Shelagh Delaney—the working-class playwright who stormed the West End
JA Hopkin
Mrs Peachum—a reworking of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera
The best opera and classical in November 2019—Death in Venice at the ROH and Mrs Peachum in Wales
Alexandra Coghlan
The Arrival by Bijan Sheibanii
The best theatre in November 2019—My Brilliant Friend at the National and The Arrival at the Bush
Michael Coveney
Zadie Smith by Dominique Nabokov
Zadie Smith—a collection that frustrates as much as it delights
Josie Mitchell
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
Chris Moss
Clive of India memorial in Westminster
Hostile takeover—how a corporation conquered India
Sameer Rahim
Abstract Composition by Jessica Dismorr © Tate
The best art and exhibitions in November 2019—Troy at the British Museum and Radical Women at Pallant House
Emma Crichton-Miller
Brock Turner, the subject of one of Gladwell's essays, leaving jail © Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group/TNS/Sipa USA/PA
What Malcolm Gladwell gets wrong
Kate Womersley
The World Transformed, Momentum's alternative fringe festival, during the Labour Party conference © PA/Matt Crossick/EMPICS Entertainment
Can a pioneering generation of agitators solve our political crisis?
Jon Cruddas
Photo by George Kraychyk/MGM/Hulu/Kobal/Shutterstock
"An elusive dream of a book": Margaret Atwood's The Testaments adeptly blends politics with storytelling
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Religion isn't dead—it's just taken on another life
Averil Cameron
The Obama administration's misadventures in foreign policy
Steve Bloomfield
Society and Culture
Illustration: Kate Hazell
In defence of the only child—why we need to rethink our outdated prejudices
Hephzibah Anderson
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The problem with VAR: facts are stupid
Benjamin Markovits
Illustration: Kate Hazell
The prisoner, poetry and me—what a mentoring scheme taught me about jail
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Illustration: Kate Hazell
Inside the mythological roots of the "wicked Stepmother" trope
Charlotte Higgins
"My own private island, at least for one night." Illustration: Kate Hazell
A land of my own—what I learned about loneliness when I spent a night on an abandoned island
Cal Flyn
Churchill got there first
The way we were: sunlit uplands
Ian Irvine
Hannah Berry's cartoon: the price of freedom—and a "99"
Hannah Berry
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